{"id":374,"date":"2012-10-17T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=374"},"modified":"2017-06-17T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T19:59:55","slug":"mid-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Mid Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I got my big speakers wired up, only to find both dome mid-ranges were open circuit. \u00a0I looked for replacements for these Philips AD0210\/SQ8 drivers. \u00a0There were none to be found, and the asking price on eBay was anywhere from $120\/pair all the way up to $300. \u00a0I had nothing to loose, \u00a0so I disassembled them to see what was up. \u00a0As it turned out the voice coil looked intact, but there was discolouration around where the voice coil joined the tinsel wires. \u00a0With some care and\u00a0judicious scraping and soldering I resurrected both mids. \u00a0 I&#8217;m still not sure what caused the \u00a0breaks, if it was due to metal fatigue or just some kind of bad acid core solder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The picture on the right is the final voice coil repair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-374 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=375'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1421-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=377'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1423-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=378'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1428-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I got my big speakers wired up, only to find both dome mid-ranges were open circuit. \u00a0I looked for replacements for these Philips AD0210\/SQ8 drivers. \u00a0There were none to be found, and the asking price on eBay was anywhere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}